Veranstaltet vom Institut für Geschichte sowie vom Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der Universität Wien
Zeit: Freitag, 15. Mai 2009, 10-13 Uhr
Ort: Seminarraum 2, Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien, Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Wien
Vortragende
Martha HODES (New York University / Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): „Searching for Love in Sex Across the Color Line“
This talk explores romantic love in illicit, transgressive relationships, focusing on liaisons between white women and black men in the nineteenth-century United States. By asking how historians can approach questions of emotion, desire, and mutuality, as filtered through a society predicated upon racial slavery, followed by violent white supremacy, the talk considers the challenges inherent in the archival documentation of illicit sex and romantic love and, most broadly, the problem of motivation in writing the history of sexuality.
Bruce DORSEY (Swarthmore College / Universität Erfurt): „Finding Love and Sexuality in Revivalist Religion“
This talk will explore the various narratives, as well as storytelling communities, that conflated evangelical Protestant revivalism with illicit sexuality and sexual disorder during the industrial revolution in the early American republic. Focusing on the participants in a controversial murder trial in 1833, wherein a Methodist minister was tried for impregnating and murdering a female factory laborer and Methodist convert, it will ask how historians can discern changing patterns of love and sexuality within the stories told during this scandal.
Kommentare: Wolfgang Schmale, Franz Eder
Moderation: Birgitta Bader-Zaar